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TRAGEDY; Hall on WRITERS Theology Theology is the effort to explain theunknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is
right and what is wrong. All human progress ... “Theology: An effort to explain theunknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.”—ibid. “The curse of
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Will Durant (1885–1981) Ignorance is strength. george orwell, 1984 Theology isthe effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. H. l.
Mencken (1880–1956) Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its
abdication.

Georgia Sothern”, Mencken coined a word “more dignified than strip teaser” to
describe such practitioners: ecdysiast, which still pops up now and again as a ... Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing
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Efforts to understand theology are hopeless, he insists. ... Theologians can
persuade themselves of anything. ... calls H. L. Mencken to testify: “For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

It is easier for him to concur with Mencken that "Theology is the effort to explainthe unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."19 Pinker's explanation of the
universal appearance of religion builds on other received ideas that religious ...

Mencken the skeptic defined theology as the "effort to explain the unknowable by
putting it in terms of the not worth knowing." "It is a sin to believe evil of others,"
jibed the classicist who laughed at the notion of humankind's perfectibility, "but it
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Anybody who is incapable of learning has taken the teaching to become master. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in the term of not worth knowing
because one can't understand it. Time: that which man is trying to kill when he is
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“Theology,” he sneered, “is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of thenot worth knowing.” It's ironic that one of his best-known, most widely circu- lated
quotes is his definition of Puritanism: “The haunting fear that someone, ...

A day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving
Father that it is not hydrophobia. Theology. An effort to explain the unknowable
by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. Tombstone. An ugly reminder of
one ...